Love Letters and Two Other Plays: The Golden Age, What I Did Last Summer (Plume Drama)
by A. R. Gurney
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Book Summary Information
Author: A. R. GurneyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1990-09-01
ISBN: 0452265010
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Plume
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Book Review: Americ's Favorite Corn Star
Summary: 3 Stars
Gurney has his ear to something absolutely vital, something terribly real, something important. It's real, but it's not invigorating. It's corn. Gurney is American corn star playwright. He's been around now for some forty years. In fact, he's got a new play opening in New York this year. He can be satiric, witty, biting, and insightful. I'm thinking of "Dining Room," but there are others. Everyone should have a favorite Gurney play. He is absolutely brilliant on WASP cultural transitions. He understands well what has been lost and why. In this volume, his title play "Love Letters" made the rounds. Gurney is somewhat of a gimmick playwright. Here movie actors come in for the night, read the script without memorization, get a little publicity, and then hit the road. The letters are not bad. Like "Same Time Next Year," there is a long term love relationship, in this from childhood to old age. It is touching, like "On Golden Pond." In our current theatre climate, this is just the sort of show producers like to squeeze in between revivals of big musicals. It's a stunt, but the blue-hair crowd seems to lap it up. Gurney has enormous talent, wasted on this sort of thing, but then again everyone's got to make a living.
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